In particular, one cannot help aligning oneself with Edith's nine-year-old son, Robert Pretty.
Aligning oneself with a hero, he added, is a convenient way to manage the chaos of a complicated event, and to present a point of view that can't be argued with.
To race leaders like Wilkins, leadership meant keeping in touch with the powerful, and even to shrewd political analysts such as Levison, leadership meant aligning oneself with other powerful groups to form a strong coalition.
She realizes that, when you've got money, aligning oneself with a demographic that's actually struggling is a pretty gross thing to do.
By the 20th century, to use metalpoint was to align oneself with a most exacting tradition.
One way to be desirable to men may be to align oneself with their interests in the hope they might protect you.
Last year, before Richard Spencer's burst of viral fame, it was still possible to align oneself with the alt-right without ever having encountered Spencer or his ideas.
Free jazz, funk and noise-rock were outré departures then, and to align oneself with any of them, never mind all of them, was a self-marginalizing act.
Alluding to this distinction, Max Weber suggested that what marks out the charismatic leader is the ability to align oneself with the sacred: to capture a group of congregants' imagination so entirely that they associate the leader's persona – his very being – with the epitome of what they most cherish about life in general.
This seems, to me, to be an unspoken but profound hindrance to all popular rebellions: if a person reads the right authors, and buys the right records, and vouches for those preferences loudly and repeatedly, it can feel like all the necessary work has been done to align oneself with the proper causes.
It's a tricky task to align oneself with both China and the US.
